Em Dom, 2007-01-07 às 02:07 +0000, Ross Paterson escreveu: > On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 12:44:46PM +1100, Donald Bruce Stewart wrote: > > dmhouse: > > > On 06/01/07, Chris Kuklewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >Running --configure notices that many things are not installed, but this > > > >is just noise from Cabal. > > > > > > This is the second time I've seen someone get confused by these > > > messages. I propose we add a 'Configuration successful, now type > > > runhaskell Setup.hs build.' to the bottom of the configure output. > > > > I agree. This issue is even mentioned here: > > > > > > www.serpentine.com/blog/2007/01/05/getting-started-with-installing-third-party-haskell-packages/ > > > > Those new to Cabal always seem to assume things are going badly when > > "happy not found". We need to address the psychological aspect > > of Cabal's config process :) > > But it's not enough to just say "Ignore any errors above". Some packages > really do need happy (or some other tool) to build. Cabal would need to > crawl over the source files to see what preprocessors are really needed. > (It does that in the build phase, but not configure.) If haddock is > absent, you can build and install, but not build documentation.
Maybe if in the Cabal file was specified what's needed for compiling the package, this would not happen. -- malebria Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva Correio (MSN): [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber (GTalk): [EMAIL PROTECTED] Telefone: 33346720 Celular: 98116720 Endereço: Rua Paula Cândido, 257/201 Gutierrez 30430-260 Belo Horizonte/MG Brasil _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe